Money you may as well have set on fire

[Snickernoodle]

Like you literally got NOTHING for it.
DD wanted to go to drama club for ages. Loved the first term. Asked if she wanted to do the second term. No sooner had a I sent the money across she came and told me she didn't want to do it and has been moaning and tantruming about it ever since. £90 completely wasted. I'm feeling pretty salty about it atm. Help me feel better about it with your wasted money stories?

£80 on pure new wool for a jumper I hand knitted, and wrecked the first time I hand washed it. Bastard new washing machine didn’t have a ‘just spin’ function, only a ‘rinse and spin’ you have to faff with to get spin only (no instructions!!) and I mis-faffed, so it did a long rinse and spin and came out 1/4 of the size. 😩

Cat toothbrush and toothpaste.

40k defending my ex trying to get 100% custody for five years, for him to turn around on the last day and say he never wanted it anyway, to then get 50:50 and never bother to collect them again.

My brother built me a super lightweight ebike which I'm too disabled to ride....£5k worth of bike sat in my lounge, no way to sell it for what it's worth; can't afford a new lightweight ebike that I really need until I sell it

I booked onto a baby massage weekly thing before my baby was born and then never actually attended. I think it was about 100 quid

Every single penny we've spent 'renovating' our house.

Cats are always fussy sods we pay a fortune trying foods which she eats once then walks away. It seems that loads of cats are like this so we keep our eyes open on Market place; bought cat refused to eat crop up often, the last week we got some posh prescription nosh for a fiver! 6 boxes of the damn stuff for that price her vet persuaded her to buy it tried once sachet nope. our old girl 22 now loves the gravy slurps it up she has got teeth then dog hoovers up the meat so win win!

Pet insurance for me. Paid in for 10 years without claiming. Just went to do my first claim and they won't pay out! 😠

Also anything involving DM - spent the proceeds of sale of my home on a year-long holiday for her, bought her a present which she threw away with the wrapping paper, paid off her overdraft which she immediately ran up again ...

Gym membership for me and DH

Driving instructor course for DH when he panicked because he was made redundant. He didn’t enjoy it and then the company went into administration so he never finished it. £3000 down the drain.

Similar here. i could kick myself for the amount of silly money I spent on new phones on contracts. I didn't know you could buy second hand with sim only deals.

Tread mill, £1800, my mate said it would become the world's most expensive clothes hanger, and she was right.

Sold it for £500.

Lottery tickets - did I win a penny on the euromillions last night? No I did not.

Wardrobes too. Neither one of my DC use them, they were bloody expensive and took a year of saving up to get the two of them. Only got them because DC leave their clothes dumped all over the floor rather than fold and put them in their chest of drawers. Thought maybe hanging them up would be easier for them but they’re still all over the floor.

Baby swimming. My baby loved it for several terms. I signed up for a new term. One lesson in, she decided she didn’t like it anymore. We had 2/3 disastrous further lessons and then I gave up taking her.

A conservatory

Ashamed/furious that I just got scammed out of £78 by one of these 'helping' sites when I renewed my driving license. I'm usually very tech savvy and careful but I was in a hurry and this site was came top when I googled the dvla and was absolutely convincing. I didn't know it's free to renew. Feeling stupid. Beware of the passport and dvla fake sites.

I think you win!

Sounds more like financial abuse to me!

I was on an absolutely packed commuter train and got shunted into first class (along with dozens of others) as people were cramming on. Ticket inspector (smug git) was catching people getting off in London and fining them £20. Fair enough I thought - reached for my purse... no purse. It was still in a different bag I'd taken out the night before. He wouldn't accept me bringing cash to a station once I'd got to work and could borrow some, wouldn't accept my BF paying over the phone with his card. So I got a court summons and had to find a solicitor to help me get let off the summons. £1000 later, it worked and the case was dropped. Just because I forgot my purse.

Lottery tickets - did I win a penny on the euromillions last night? No I did not.

You sound surprised!? 😄

Guitar lessons for DS. He keeps promising to practice and I keep threatening to stop them if he doesn't. Got to the point where I put my foot down and said I was cancelling them - the bloody teacher convinced me to carry on! That was nearly a year ago, he still rarely practices. I carry on letting it happen because I'd really like him to be able to play the guitar 🤦🏼‍♀️

Potted plants which invariably die. I'm a plant killer 😔

If it's any consolation DH did the same on one of those fake Land registry sites. he got a copy of our registry for £40 from memory. I pointed out it costs £3.00 going to LR direct.

Thing is... he is both a trained (but never practiced ) Real Estate agent AND a (currently practicing) accountant who specialises in fraud.

Expensive dry dog food that my dog scoffs gleefully in the pet shop at the free sample bowl area.

Realised now that the little bugger just eats it so that the other dogs can't. When I gave it to him at home he sniffed it disdainfully, side eyed me like Gordon Ramsey and walked off.

Had to spend 10 minutes unclamping his jaw to remove a beer soaked, glass riddled old pizza crust from his gob he found outside a kebab shop though. 😒

£400 on a pair of earrings that I wore once then promptly lost. The shitter of it is I KNOW I alway lose earrings, nothing else, only bloody earrings, so for the last 20 years I’ve not spent more than £10 on a pair. But I LOVED these ones and convinced myself I was now older and wiser. Clearly not.